S7 - Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
S7 Challenges
Societal challenges
- Improve quality of life
- Preserve the collective memory
- Establish good governance
- Promote participatory management
- Optimise implementation of the conventions
- Promote an inclusive approach to heritage
Development challenges
- Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
Knowledge challenges
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Identifying, preserving, transmitting and sharing heritage knowledge and skills
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
S7 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
Recommended courses of action for S7
- Create collaborative platforms for the joint drawing up of inventories
- Develop participatory heritage identification programmes and projects at various territorial levels, with the assistance of experts and designed for different audiences (adults, children, elderly people, etc.)
- Provide support for theme-specific inventories
- Encourage projects fostering the pooling of a diverse range of skills
- Promote projects fostering the contextualisation of the items that have been identified, and making sure that by classifying them as heritage they are not divorced from their natural setting and context
- Implement projects tying in with training sessions and public feedback sessions
- Attach priority to inventories of endangered or threatened heritage assets